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The Pinhole Camera
When Mozi, a Chinese philosopher observed rays of light falling on the walls of a darkened room through a pinhole made on the opposite side, he saw the world outside as upside down. Mozi was fascinated by this fact, and upon proper research he reached the conclusion that since light travels in a straight line, thus such a phenomenon take place in nature. This was the building block for modern cameras and photography. -
The Daguerreotype Camera
In the year 1839 Louis Daguerre, a French artist developed a process to actually store the projected image forever on a shiny mirror finished copper plate treated with chemicals. This was the first time an object was made to be light sensitive to capture information on it and store it forever by treating it with chemicals. Daguerre made the process public in return for a lifetime pension, and this process paved the way for the film cameras that we have used in the past. -
The Reise Camera
In the year 1900, The Reise Camera changed it all. This was the world’s first truly portable camera, with its ability to be folded into a compact shape and being extremely light weight as compared to other models available on the market, this was the thing for people who were looking to travel around and shoot photos. -
The Leica I
Leica I was the first compact camera that packed a superb f/3.5 lens and was able to shoot photos on 35mm films. -
Polaroid Model 95
A company named Polaroid recognized this problem and decided to compress this whole process into a matter of seconds.Thus came Polaroid Model 95 onto the market. With this camera photographers could just take a shot and get the photo printed on a special paper supplied by Polaroid itself in minutes.Well, at this stage, instant photography was a reality and gave a new turn to the evolution of cameras. -
Kodak Digital Camera
In the year 1975, Steven Sasson of Kodak, developed the world’s first digital camera. It was a modified version of a Nikon SLR, coupled with a digital CCD sensor used to capture light information, and a tape recorder meant for storing the processed photograph. -
Sharp J-SH04
This was the world’s first cell phone with an inbuilt digital camera, and it paved the way for today’s cell phones which boast high quality digital cameras on their back. -
Apple iPhone
The iPhone camera had superb imaging technology and delivered great photos in every lighting condition.It was capable enough to give traditional point and shoot digital cameras a run for their money, and turbo charged the growth of tiny cameras. -
Now
High-end DSLRs such as the Canon EOS 1D-C offer superb image quality and video recording at 4K resolution in a compact body.
